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2 2 • Colour of carapace and limbs reddish-brown, the ends of the 

 legs pale yellowish, the upper side of the patellae, the apex and base 

 of the tibiae and the base of the metatarsi also more or less yellowish ; 

 carapace with 2 black marks at middle above, which converge pos- 

 teriorly and emit from each side 3 wavy, black, radiating lines, and 

 from the front 6 subparallel lines, the latter anastomosing anteriorly 

 on the head. 



Anterior median eyes a little larger than the laterals and situated 

 slightly in front of the line joining the anterior margins of the 

 anterior lateral eyes. Clypeus a little exceeding twice the length of 

 a median eye. 



Abdomen narrow oblong, shortly acuminate at apex. Epigastric 

 area very long, entirely covered below by a very large, brown, smooth, 

 semicylindrical, somewhat fiddle-shaped plate extending from anterior 

 end to middle of under surface of abdomen, and occupying the whole 

 space between the pulmonary opercula, whose stigmata lie a little 

 before the middle of the plate ; anterior end of plate strongly emar- 

 ginate, the edges strongly reflexed on each side of the emargination ; 

 hind end of plate sinuated in the middle, the sinus closed by a small, 

 hard brown plate placed vertically behind the genital opening, and 

 itself emarginate in the middle of its lower edge (PL XI., fig. 24). 



$ . Pedipalps with the 3 distal segments nearly pallid, turgid, the 

 femur darker, much slenderer, cylindrical ; tarsus subglobular, very 

 broad, appearing, when seen from above, transverse and sinuate in 

 the middle at apex, covered with long hairs on upper and inner 

 surfaces ; bulb small, globular, the spine strong, much curved dis- 

 tally, and pointed at apex (PI. XL, fig. 25). 



Length of $ $ 8J-9-J, $ 6f mm., of carapace in largest $ 4, <? 3, 

 of first leg (to base of femur) in $ 33J, in $ 35. 



Young coloured much as in the adult, the abdomen without yellow 

 transverse stripes. 



2. Drymusa peoducta, n. sp. 



Specimens. — 3 ? ? (No. 7905) from the forest on the mountain- 

 side at Swellendam (W. F. P., August, 1900). 



Colour not quite so dark as in the preceding species, the legs 

 much more yellowish in the distal half at least, the abdomen 

 marked above with about 3 pairs of yellow spots in the middle part, 

 followed behind by indications of fine, yellow, transverse lines. 



Clypeus about equal to twice the length of a median eye. 



Abdomen like that of the foregoing, but the hardened brown plate 

 before the genital opening much smaller, not reaching anterior end 

 of abdomen, although extending backwards to or nearly to the middle 



